Man the lifeboats!

[denny]

http://valleywag.gawker.com/5124184/the-russian-bear-slashes-a-social-network


ETA, see also:
http://xb95.livejournal.com/635394.html (linked from the Valleywag post, but people seem to be missing it)
http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/302379.html


ETA2:
If you don't mind playing with svn and Perl, everything you need to save your journal data (posts and comments) as XML is here:
http://code.livejournal.org/svn/livejournal/trunk/src/jbackup/jbackup.pl

Comments

[mr_magicfingers]

Did anything ever come of the open source alternative to LJ? Think I shall just archive my journal in case, as this doesn't bode well.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

LJ is open source. What's needed is a federated alternative to LJ.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

There was a bunch of discussion on the dreamwidth-dev list at the early stages of the project (I may have started it :) ) about how much interoperability would be possible to build in for sites running the DW codebase. The interest levels seem to be there, but probably not enough developer time - the core devs are doing more core stuff (splitting 'friends' to be 'trusted' and 'reading', for instance).

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

You mean the Dreamwidth project, I assume? They're still ticking along... the news has spurred them into shifting up a gear.

[mr_magicfingers]

That's the one, I knew LJ was open source, but remembered there being an alternative that was run for the community.

[ulorin-vex.livejournal.com]

i'll be devasted if I lose my livejournal :(

Are there any majical other sites that will transfer all my old entries etc over to somewhere else? lol

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I've seen LJ Book (http://www.ljbook.com/) recommended for doing LJ backups, but I haven't tried it. I don't think there's currently any way to import your LJ content into another site, but that is one of the goals of the Dreamwidth project.

[ulorin-vex.livejournal.com]

yeah I used LJ book last year. I'll have to do another one for 2008. Looks like too many people are using the site now though! lol

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

There's also this thing, it doesn't look very polished but it does seem to have a lot of options:
http://www.offtopia.net/ljsm/index_en.html

[pooloftrees.livejournal.com]

See http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=8 to manually export your LJ. Annoyingly you have to do it month by month...

[earle.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the pointer to jbackup.pl - it would have been an arse to have to write that myself.

Who knows, if Dreamwidth ever happens, I might even journal again.

[jezzifishie.livejournal.com]

The quirky site, part blog and part social network, is best known for its users' weird obsessions — like the troublesome clique of Harry Potter erotica writers, whose outré tastes ran afoul of LiveJournal's efforts to comply with U.S. child-pornography laws.

Oops?

*Edits profile*

[sevenhelz.livejournal.com]

How about if I don't understand svn and perl? Abandon ship?

[fellcat.livejournal.com]

ljArchive.